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Title: Panoramic drawing of Mount Lowe
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1937
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: T.S.C. Lowe founded the Mount Lowe project and Mount Lowe Railway. In 1892, Oak Mountain, a 6,100 foot peak behind Echo Mountain, was renamed Mount Lowe in his honor. The rail system was engineered by David J. Macpherson and completed in 1893.
Panoramic drawing by W. H. Bull depicting Mount Lowe, the Cable Incline rail, Circular Bridge, "Ye Alpine Tavern", and Echo Mountain House and Station.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00070122
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 6062 8x10
CARL0000077049
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3083
Subject: Alpine Tavern (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Mount Lowe Railway
Drawings
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Lowe, T. S. C.(Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt),1832-1913
Macpherson, David J
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
Circular Bridge (Calif.)
Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Bull, W. H

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